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23 minutes, 33 secondsPing 151: Gaming wars, Lumia News, SkyDrive, Outlook, PredictwiseAll the news that's fit to Ping about..we've got it. We give this to you: Who is winning the gaming war? [04:29] Lumia Update [13:57] Outlook & SkyDrive updates [09:59] Predict wisely! [17:21] -
Connecting to a 3D animated world with KinÊtreToday's inspiration project is another "Wow" project from Microsoft Research and continues to push the boundaries of what you might believe possible with the Kinect. KinÊtre: Animation + WhimsyKinÊtre lets anyone create playful 3D animations. Imagine you are asked to produce a 3D… -
23 minutes, 24 secondsPing 149: The Outlook is good, body controlled PC's, Win8 RTM, Paid appsThis week Laura and Paul enjoyed themselves while bringing all the hot news to you in bite size morsels. Enjoy Body controlled PC's [04:11] The OUTLOOK is good! [14:28] Win8 RTM and a very busy week... [10:28] Paid app submissions now open -
21 minutes, 41 secondsPing 148: Speech Recognition, Microsoft Reality, Easter Egg coding, Office 13 socialLaura and Paul seemed to have the giggles this week and they might just be contageous. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we did filming it! Here are some of the stories we talk about: Speech Recognition taken to the next level [02:20] Office 13 gets social [12:05] Microsoft… -
21 minutes, 20 secondsInside MSR's Chronozoom with Rane Johnson.Apr 04, 2012 at 5:08 PM
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How do you best present history that spans billions of years? That was the challenge taken on by MSR recently with Chronozoom. The resulting site presents a multimedia timeline using DeepZoom through HTML5 to explore significant events across a variety of curated collections from… -
WHOIS: Stevie Bathiche, Research Manager, Applied Sciences GroupToday we'll chat with Stevie Bathiche. Stevie is the Research Manager in Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group. His job is to discover and explore and right away when talking to Stevie you can tell he really /really/ loves his job. The ASG is behind some of the coolest innovations at Microsoft, from… -
WHOIS: Danah Boyd, MSR Social ScientistToday we'll chat with Danah Boyd. Danah is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, Mass., exploring social media. You can read more about Danah in this NY Times article posted this week. How did you get into technology? As a child, I remember playing a few computer games… -
29 minutes, 10 secondsSimon Peyton-Jones and John Hughes - It's Raining HaskellEver wonder what would happen if you happened upon Simon Peyton-Jones, author of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) and a key contributor to the Haskell functional programming language, and John Hughes, fellow Haskellite, computer scientist, creator of QuickCheck, and author of… -
37 minutes, 3 secondsYOW! 2011: Simon Peyton-Jones - Closer to NirvanaI caught up with Simon Peyton-Jones, author of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) and a key contributor to the Haskell functional programming language, at YOW! 2011. Simon is a pure functional guy. That said, he's OK with side effects as long as you can control them (so,… -
48 minutes, 51 secondsMDCC TechTalk - Fun with type functionsNov 22, 2011 at 1:40 PM 2
by Simon Peyton Jones, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Today's most widely used technology, by far, for static program verification is the ubiquitous type checker. Alas, static type systems inevitably exclude some good programs; and allow some bad ones. Thus motivated, Simon describes…
